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In case you didn’t know, our community is in the midst of a 12 month fast. Here’s thoughts from Adam, one of the people fasting:
I’m currently doing a 24 hour fast as part of Kary’s 12 month fast for his new book. I’ve never really fasted before so this is new to me. I mean I’ve done lent fasts where I gave up T.V. or candy or something, but to be honest, I did it cause it was a big deal to say you gave up something for lent…not because I understood the purpose behind a fast.
So today God’s spirit is my nourishment. Shouldn’t that be the way it is everyday? Sure, we need food and water to live in our physical bodies, but to really live we need spiritual nourishment. We have to be healthy in spirit and I believe the only way to do that is through God. I’ve only been awake for 5 hours
today so far and I’m already getting really hungry. It’s going to be hard to make it another 9.5 hours, and to be honest I probably wouldn’t have the will power to do it alone.
That is what is great about this…the only way I can make it through this day without eating my arm is by depending on God for strength and resolve – and the most beautiful thing of all is that He is faithful and WILL be that strength. As part of the fast Kary has asked me (anyone doing it) to spend at least a half hour in prayer, which I have not done yet. (I will though, don’t worry) I have been doing some reflecting though and realized I am addicted to sin.
Sin controls a lot of my life and 2 Peter 2:19 says, “…For you are a slave to whatever controls you.” I am so comfortable in the mindset I have had my entire life, which falls short of the life Christ demands ALL the time, and it’s created a rut that has prevented the kind of progress I am capable of in my walk. Romans 6:16 tells a similar story to the one in 2 Peter, but reminds us that we still have a choice. “Don’t you realize you are a slave to whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.”
